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Nancy Shepard, Chairman Tel: (781) 698-4870
Nancy Adler Fax: (781) 862-2747
Alessandro Alessandrini
Daniel Palant
Lisah Rhodes
Archana Singhal
John Zhu
Community Center Program Advisory Committee
Minutes of Meeting
January 11, 2018
A meeting of the Community Center Program Advisory Committee (CCPAC) was held on Thursday,
January 11, at 7:00 p.m. at the Lexington Community Center, 39 Marrett Road, Lexington.
Meeting Attendees: Members - Lisah Rhodes, Daniel Palant, Nancy Adler, Archana Singhal, Nancy
Shepard (Chair)
Ex-Officio Member Attendees: Christine Dean (Community Center Director), Doug Lucente (Board
of Selectman) Melissa Battite (Director of Recreation &Community Programs)
Unable to attend: Charlotte Rodgers (Director of Human Services), Alessandro Alessandrini, John Zhu
The meeting was called to order at 7:10pm.
1. Minutes of December 14,2017
The minutes from the December meeting were reviewed and unanimously accepted.
2. Citizens and Other Boards
There were no citizens or other boards present at this meeting.
3. Community Center Director Updates
• Christine Dean, Community Center (CC) Director, reported that work is being done on the
Spring Program Guide.
• The Open House will take place on January 20' from 10-2. There are currently 15 providers
signed up with a capacity of 20. Tom Romano is doing press releases for the event. Lisah said
that ELL families are invited to attend and they are hoping to provide LHS students who can
translate for families. The Lexington Interfaith Clergy Association was mentioned as a possible
outlet for outreach and publicity for CC programs and events.
• Christine just returned from the Northern New England Recreation and Parks Conference.
• Charlotte Rodgers, Director of Human Services, was unable to attend and asked Christine to
report that there were no new updates for her department.
4. Community Center Expansion Update
• Melissa thanked the members of the committee who attended the presentation from DtNisco
Design about options at the BOS meeting on Monday night.
• We discussed what was presented at the BOS meeting and what the next steps should be for
our committee in terms of advocacy for the expansion.
• Design documents for the expansion plan for the CC are being considered for the FY19 budget.
The $250,000 for the documents would come from the Enterprise Fund.
• A motion was made for the Committee to draft a letter that would be sent to the Selectmen and
Town Manager to express our support for the expansion plans. It was unanimously approved.
The letter will also be sent to the Recreation Committee.
• Nancy will do an initial draft of the letter and send it along to committee members for
comments.
• We also discussed having a Friends Group for the CC and if we should be looking in other
options for funding to support expansion.
• Melissa reminded the Committee members that terms will be ending in May so members should
be thinking about whether they would like to continue to serve. Since several meetings had to
be cancelled due to a lack of a quorum, at the February meeting, we will discuss the timing for
the meeting and whether the 2nd Thursday is the best time to meet. Christine will send along a
Est of the proposed dates for 2018-19 meetings.
The next meeting of the Community Center Program Advisory Committee will be a joint
meeting with the Recreation Committee, scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 28,
2018 at 7:OOpm in Room 237 of the Lexington Community Center.
The January 11, 2018 meeting of the Communitv, Center Program Advisory Committee adjourned at
8:50pin.
Respectfully submitted,
Nancy Shepard
Chair